POLICE LOG: Would-be Shoplifters Nabbed

The following is an excerpt from the  log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log.

August 19

At 9:03 a.m., a Woburn woman reported that she received two text messages earlier in the week. One solicited sex with her for money. The woman was concerned because the caller knew her name. She Googled the caller’s phone number and found it was the number of family member. Police advised her of her rights. She reportedly said she wanted to confront the caller.

At 11:31 a.m., after responding to a two-car accident at the intersection of Route 95 south at Route 128, police cited both drivers:  the driver who was hit, a woman from Stoneham, for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and the second driver, a woman from North Andover, for failing to use care and caution. The North Andover woman reportedly complained of head and neck pain. Woburn Fire and Rescue transported her.

At 11:32 a.m., a resident at the Cambridge Road Crescent Park condos reported that the rear window on the driver’s side of his car window was shattered.

At 11:45 a.m., a woman who had parked her car at a Mill Street parking lot reported that she found the left side window of her car broken when she went out to her vehicle in the morning. She reportedly told police that her boyfriend saw another vehicle in the parking lot with a broken window.

 At 1:14 p.m., police arrested William J. Hinchliffe-Metrano, 22, of 32 Rumford Park Ave, Woburn, and charged him with shoplifting by concealing merchandise and resisting arrest after an officer was dispatched to Sports Authority to back up another officer who had responded. As the second officer arrived, Hinchcliffe-Metrano reportedly burst through a security door, past the second officer with the first officer in pursuit. The second officer reportedly grabbed the suspect’s left wrist and told him to stop. They both fell to the ground. The officer reported pain in his left knee, which he hit when he fell.

At 2:45 p.m., police were called to Target, where three people “attempted to shoplift but did not get away with any property.”  When police stopped a vehicle used by the three, the driver reportedly admitted to taking some t-shirts but said he left them at the store door. The store reportedly had video of the three gathering items in the store but only the driver taking them past the “point of purchase” and dropping them in the store vestibule. Another of the three was in the car. The third man was found in the store. All three were photographed and advised by the store that they no longer were allowed to visit any Target store or property and escorted off the property.

At 6:30 p.m., a man reported that his car was broken into and a laptop was missing while he was inside Planet Fitness on Micro Drive.  Police reported that a potential suspect vehicle was spotted on surveillance video.

At 7:21 p.m., a woman reported that her son’s father violated a restraining order against him by telling the boy he wanted to talk to him. The boy yelled, “No” and called his mother. Police are looking to summons the father for violating an abuse prevention order, according to the report.

August 20

At 7:59 a.m., a resident complained to police that soon-to-be-ex-husband was trying to turn off her AOL email address.  The man cannot turn off her utilities, according to police, based on her restraining order, but “it is believed” that a computer account is not a utility.

At 1:10 p.m., police arrested James M, Godin, 22, of 79 Middle St., Woburn, on a warrant. Officers were advised that a warrant was out for Godin; they located him at that address.

At 9:26 p.m., a  football player was taken to the emergency room after a semi-professional football game at WMHS “got out of hand.” At the end of the game, a fight broke out on the field between players from the Connecticut Black Hawks and the Warlords of Woburn. A Woburn player was tackled to the ground, according to the police report, where a Black Hawk player “eye gouged” both his eyes. The Black Hawk team physician treated the player on the field; after the game was called, the injured player's teammates and brother took him to Winchester Hospital. No long-lasting damage was done to his eyes, according to his mother. Both the player’s father and the player reportedly told police they do not want to press charges.

August 21

At 3:30 a.m., police arrested Brian Steven Scopa, 37, of 29 Orange St., Woburn, and charged him with three warrants. They had responded to a call from a woman at that address who reported an unwanted male at the front door.  When she told the man, her ex-husband, whom she had allowed to live there while he got back on his feet, that she called police, he left, according to the police report. About an hour later police received another call from the woman and reportedly found Scopa under a bed.

At 9:54 a.m., police responded to the Holiday Inn on Middlesex Canal Parkway for a request for a wellness check on a 5-year-old boy there. They found no 5-year-old; they did find a 15-year-old alone. His mother left him there the day before, according to police. The boy’s grandmother took custody of the youth. Police will file endangered child paperwork with the Department of Children and Families, the report concludes.

At 1:55 p.m., police were called to the Fairfield Inn Marriott on Mishawum Road for a possible domestic incident.  A clerk reportedly told police a man had left the property in a truck, a woman on foot. Police located the woman. She said she and the man had a verbal argument.

 At 3:54 p.m., a male resident reported being punched in the face at a convenience store at Main and Franklin Streets. He said that he and another man exchanged words and the other man got out of a truck and punched him in the mouth. The second man said the first man simulated a firearm with his hand and he felt threatened by the gesture, according to the report.

At 4:35 p.m., a woman reported that a Mill Street home had been entered and vandalized and several items, including two TVs, stolen. Messages were spray-painted in every room and on every floor, according to the report.  Some messages were reportedly directed at a former resident. A rear door was damaged.

At 6:17 p.m., a man came to the police station to report that earlier in the day his stepfather had pushed the man’s mother to the ground at a Woburn apartment after an argument. The younger man intervened; the older man left the premises. Police told the younger man the action constituted a crime, according to the police report, and a restraining order was reportedly granted.

At 8:50 p.m., a woman complained that her ex-boyfriend calls her bad names on the phone and curses at her in front of other people.  She said he poses her no physical threat.

At 11:16 p.m., Locust Street residents reported that a camera and lenses and a camcorder were stolen from their apartment. Entry was gained through a rear sliding door, which had a defective lock.